Brewer's: Belladonna

(Italian, beautiful lady ). This name was given to the Deadly Nightshade, from a practice once common among ladies of touching their eyes with it to make the pupils large and lustrous.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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